Pratidaan
Title Poster
Genre	Soap opera
Created by	Boyhood Productions
Written by	Concept Star Jalsha Creative Team Screenplay Sayantani Bhattacharya Dialogues Arpita Paul
Directed by	Siddhartha Paul
Starring	Sandipta Sen Sheikh Rezwan Rabbani Rukma Roy Tanuka Chatterjee Debraj Mukherjee
Opening theme	Pratidaan
Composer	Debjit Roy
Country of origin	India
Original language	Bengali
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	481( 23 December 2018 )
Production
Producers	Surinder Singh Gurjit Singh Sushanta Das
Production location	Kolkata
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	Boyhood Productions
Original release
Network	STAR Jalsha
Release	21 August 2017 (2017-08-21) – 23 December 2018 (2018-12-23)
Related
Milon Tithi Pavitra Bandham

Pratidaan (Bengali: প্রতিদান); was a Bengali television soap opera that premiered on 21 August 2017 and aired on STAR Jalsha. Produced by Boyhood Productions, it stars Sandipta Sen^[1] and Sheikh Rezwan Rabbani^[2] in lead roles and Rukma Roy^[3] and Debraj Mukherjee in negative roles. It replaced Star Jalsha's show Milon Tithi. The show will go off air on 23 December 2018 and will get replaced by Bhoomikanya.

Plot

Shimul comes from a village where education has not left its mark yet and being a responsible school teacher herself, Shimul makes it a point to impart education and knowledge to everyone possible in the village. She is progressive in nature and an accomplished educator. As an empowered woman who wants to create her own identity yet stay deeply rooted to her values, Shimul's only motto in life is to enlighten everyone she comes across with proper education. Destiny however, has a poignant role to play in Shimul's life as she gets married into a family where education is of least priority.

Neel is a happening college-goer but hates studies to such an extent that he passed his graduation exams only after appearing for it the 4th time. Neel is also extremely spoilt and is guided by his mother, who herself believes that studies are a waste of time. Neel's mother wants her daughter-in-law to be illiterate as she doesn't want anyone in the family to be more qualified than her son. Shimul brings changes in Neel for the better, and the two go about life hand-in-hand, overcoming hurdles that life throws at them. Off late, Neel succumbs to a life laced with tragedy and alcohol after the sad demise of Shimul. Sunaina, a con and a bar-crooner makes an entry and is found to be Shimul's exact lookalike.

Cast

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